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Once upon a time, there were people who also referred to “blackness” as the scourge of the earth. Careful you do not become the thing you despise. Work on your shadow.
Human beings aren't reducible to "blackness" and "whiteness." Let's abandon the concept of racial essence altogether—it was wrong 100 years ago; it is still wrong today.
That kind of race essentialism reduces everything to a power struggle, and society just shifts which categories are predator and prey.
@cvaldary mentioned King’s ‘beloved community’ in an interview. I want that. Let’s build that... together.
I was listening to @Ryan_Gattis book ‘all involved’ and he quoted more than the usual Rodney King quote: “People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along? Can we get along? Can we stop making it, making it horrible for the older people and the kids?” 1/
Expand that - we are individuals. Grouping people by any characteristic to form a view of them is a simplistic/tribal trait we should work to eliminate. Take ‘em as they come. Using such groupings to assert power claims is counterproductive bordering on evil.
It takes the nigh infinite complexity of a conscious entity and reduces to a vulgar binary. It’s the apex of inanity, reducing human complexity to hues newly imbued with magical stereotypes. A crude, misguided, sadly racist power move, however well-intentioned.
Happy to stop calling myself white. It is not and has not been part of my identity. Can we move on now please from social division and cohesion based on skin color? Humanity is so much more interesting and complex than a single trait.
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